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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: amadeus who wrote (114135)	12/13/2000 10:34:05 AM
From: H-Man	Respond to of 769670

In the end Algore has no one to blame but himself. His legal strategy conflicted with his political strategy. Al needed to get the certification deadline extended so that he could demonstrate that there was a possibility of gaining additional votes. In doing so he dramatically limited the time of the Contest phase. Although the 7-2 majority of the Supreme court agreed that the method of counting was unconstitutional, the tight time frame left, brought on by his original lawsuit (Palm Beach vs. Harris) was his real undoing. The limit on the contest phase hit him in two ways, 1, the ruling and procedures of the Florida supreme court, did not allow for judicial review as called for in Florida law. 2. Going past December 12 ran afoul of the legislative intent to have electors within the safe harbor provision of federal law. The democrats were so fond of playing legal gotcha earlier in this oddessy, pointing out that the GOP could have asked for recounts in other counties and that they could have contested other counties. Poetic justice that they were gotten by their own gotcha.